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The "Sample REST Application" is broken and old and takes up space, while probably no one is making use of it. I have rewritten the application a bit and put it on GitHub and described that here: https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/sample_rest_application Please delete the sample application from the IDE, better to not include something that has old code, e.g., layer entries instead of annotations for TopComponents.